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At Weddings

by Tomberlin

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silasmccord "You always say that I look so tough
But it’s because I’m tough"

a perfect album
Favorite track: Seventeen.
knew
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knew beautiful. nothing more needs to be said. Favorite track: Any Other Way.
internalgirdle
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internalgirdle It was lovely to have met you.
Looking forward to your next gig up here in Toronto. I promise to bring old friends this time. By old, I mean ancient. By ancient, I mean time tested.
By time tested, they mean everything. Favorite track: February.
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Harald Plontke the most beautiful musical discovery for me since iamthemorning. Could be compared to Daughter, Loma, Message to bears and even Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell
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stomachworm So far...only one song but it is complicated, haunting and stands out against the garbage that is being pumped out for mass consumption. I detect real artistry here.
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David Harris Because the music is beautiful to me. Reminds me of Honey Tongue (from the early nineties with Joesphine Wiggs) quite a bit, yet it is still a unique acoustic experience that rewards repeated listening from beginning to end. I am basing my review on the White label that Joyful Noise Recordings released which contained several of the songs on this release.
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1.
Hopped on a plane for the first time today  
I can't look back  
I needed some self-assurance 
 I'm gonna find that 

 Got a book off the shelf today 
 It's gonna tell me what I should say 
 I don't know how to talk, when you're looking that way  

Feeling bad for saying  
Oh my god  
No I'm not kidding  
Gave me a sudden feeling 
 That I didn't have a place  

You said that I was brave  
But I just feel insane 
 You said to look into your face each day  
Can you tell I'd never look away 

 I'm tired of running away 
 But I turned this town upside down 
 And I never found another like you 
 God turned off all the lights 

 There's gotta be a way  
I'm tired of feeling like you only stay 
 Out of guilt and out of shame  
But did we know any other way  

I didn't know any other way
2.
Untitled 1 04:51
Well I’m cutting every corner  
Trying to make it easier on me 
 Because I know I’m not eternal  
I know I’m just a young girl  

I want to be more than a woman  
In a garden 
 But there's one thing that I do know 
 You are violence 

 And there is a war in my mind 
 Because I wanted to be near you 

 But I love you  
Yes I love you 
 Or I’m trying to
3.
Tornado 03:36
I am a tornado 
 With big green eyes and a heart beat  
You don't know what to do 
 And I don't blame you  

Seasons pass and so did you 
 But I don't really blame you  
Teach me what to do 
 Cause I don't want to 

 You didn't catch me by surprise 
 You only caught me with your eyes 
 And I did blame you 
 And I will let myself miss you
4.
You Are Here 03:44
You lit your silver spoon on fire  
The night you gave way to desire 
 And I’m trying to give you everything you want 
 And I’m trying to be everything you won't  

The morning is mourning the days of our old love 
 And the clouds are crying over days that are all gone 
 And your patience is thinning and I’m looking for a smile 
 Or a touch or some tenderness that will keep on the ground 

 Cause I am here and nowhere else and you are all I want 
 Cause I am here and nowhere else and you are all I want  
Cause I am here and nowhere else and you are all I want 

 September, remembrance of all that we have lost  
But I’m trying forgiveness for the times that you took off 
 And I’m looking for newness in the way you say my name 
 And I guess that I’m asking you to try and do the same 

 Cause you are here and I am here and you are all I want  
Cause you are here and I am here and you are in my heart 
 Cause I am here and nowhere else and you are in my heart 
 Cause you are here and I am here and you are all I want
5.
A Video Game 05:12
The day you fell out of love Began like other days Nothing new and nothing out of place The edge that put you over You can’t even recall You’ve survived for quite a while now But you don’t trust a soul You trust in gravity More than purity You trust in secrecy More than eternity If you’re feeling good Than somethings probably off You never learned to smile when You’re saying “nothing’s wrong” I know you’re lying to me Let me break down the wall You trust in gravity More than purity You trust in secrecy More than eternity Forgive till you forget But if you’re losing sleep What’s left of your conscious That you want to keep You forgave it all and Forgot yourself again You trust in gravity More than purity You trust in secrecy More than eternity You said that I’m a cloud in Your video game I wish I was a hero With something beautiful to say
6.
I’m not scared of you this time And when you pick up the phone I’ll stay on the line And I’ll do more than breathe this time And I’ll let you in at least I’m gonna try And it felt so strange when I said it out loud That I look for redemption in everyone else But funny thing is that I always hated church Spend so much time looking that I forgot to search And to be a woman is to be in pain And my body reminds me almost every day That I was made for another, but I don’t want to know that Cause it happened once and I always look back In my sentience I wear your judgement like a crown Couldn’t look you in your eyes so I look to the ground Then I took the drugs again last night But pills have never brought me any kind of light My eyes are heavy all I want to do is sleep But I need to make money and I need to eat And loving never made anybody I know happy And loving only seems to make you bruise and to bleed And to be a woman is to be in pain And my body reminds me almost everyday That I was made for another, but I don’t want to know that Cause it happened once and I always look back
7.
Seventeen 04:31
Reverence so uncomfortable You sit across the room Cause I’m too scared to talk to you You knew a friend I knew a friend I looked down at your hands Pretending I was looking at the floor I held your eyes for quite sometime I’m not sure how it happened I was just surprised Were you surprised? I walk in the breeze Like I am seventeen Love is mostly war And war what is it for? Only love the people Who don’t love you back What is up with that? Are you done with that? I can’t say I’m much different Cause I still love you I was blinded And I’m still blinded I walk in the breeze Like I am seventeen Love is mostly war And love what is it for? I distract myself with other things To keep myself from you I’m tired of the others They never loved you My life has always been a kind of secret Can you keep it? Could you keep it? I walk in the breeze Like I am seventeen Love is mostly war And love what is it for? You always say that I look so tough But it’s because I’m tough
8.
Self-Help 03:17
Electrocuted in the bathtub Yellow black my bruises become The heart is a heavy coffin Where I lay down everyone I love I used the self-help book To kill a fly I think it worked mom I think I’m fine Pray for my fifth of a century The start of the beginning The light in my eyes Not the tears that fall out Well you have a soft sort of power But you know I’m not your napkin This time this time this time
9.
Untitled 2 04:36
I just don't trust people who like me  
After you leave my house  
I'm already in doubt 
I am convinced 
 That I am some kind of cloud 
 Of disease  

Someone said to take myself out 
 Romance myself and have no doubts 
 But all I ended up with was a can and a couch  
A lonesome heart and a hungry mouth  

The cat doesn't even like me these days  
And I can't blame her she is right in her ways 
 I remember kissing you  
It stops my breath and skips up my neck  
Then I remember you are far away 
 And I’m not the one you wanted anyway 

 Love is a four lettered word  
A curse and a lie  
I slept with a ghost I’m convinced, that night 
 Didn't see you with the lights so dim 
 You let me in and I knew then  
You let me in and I knew then  

I'm missing you when I try to sleep 
 Like a kid on the phone waiting to speak 
 And I’m in deep, I know I know  
But I’m a saint with the secrets I keep 
 And I crumble with each memory
10.
February 05:20
I woke up laughing at my own joke In my dream last night Still know the punchline But not how to be right Cutting slits in brown paper bags Pretending it's my neck Okay I’m sorry I didn't mean to take it there again Someone I almost married Is doing that this month And I’m ignoring my reading And living like a ghost Simple times will come again Of this I am aware But when will someone hold my hand And say that they care

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released August 10, 2018

Credits: Music + lyrics by Sarah Beth Tomberlin
Sarah Beth Tomberlin - guitar, Wurlitzer, vocals
Owen Pallett - guitar, Prophet 6, and background vocals on Self-Help
Produced, recorded, and mixed by Owen Pallett at M's House + Owen's House
Untitled 2 recorded on my phone
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering
Album cover art by Sarah Beth Tomberlin


Thanks.
thank you for listening.
also thanks to: Blake + Annie, my family, Delaney, Amber, Robb, Sasha, Eloy, Emily Heath, the swans (Matt + Dave), Nina, Matt Hubbard, Ryan Pollie.
thanks to internet friends.
thanks to Saddle Creek

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